Long Road to Chavin (B&W Photos): A Shamanic Journey of Self-Discovery and Healing

By Martin Stevens

In late middle age and wih only a backpack for luggage the author leaves behind a comfortable life in the USA to find a new love, a new home and new work in the highlands and jungles of Peru. A gifted psychic in Santa Barbara helps him set his trajectory and he is given a magnificent introduction to the ancient past of Peru via Huachuma (San Pedro cactus) ceremonies. Later he discovers deep natural healing for a serious ailment with Shipibo tribal shamans which includes an out-body-journey in which he glimpses the Godhead and meets Christ and the Archangel Michael.As an alumnus of Waldorf alternative education he follows magical promptings to find his new love, a Peruvian class teacher in the worldwide Rudolf Steiner schools movement and together they form a new initiative bringing Waldorf education to some remote areas of Peru.Along the way the author shares his philosophical conviction that despite all the obvious evil in the world, humanity is engaged with embarking on a a new cultural and scientific narrative, leaving behind an insistence on the rigid paradigm of materialism in which the human being is seen as nothing but a biological robot in a meaningless universe.And he returns time and time again to the magnificent ancient temple of Chavin which still radiates a perceptible atmosphere of love even after almost 4,000 years since building began on the first of its various buildings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1723417807
• ISBN13: 9781723417801
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"